815.51/390: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul in Chargé of the Legation in Honduras (Lawton)

20. Your February 7, 11 a.m. and Department’s February 16, 3 p.m.17

Department has been in communication with Prof. E. W. Kemmerer, in connection with obtaining his services as Financial Expert for Honduras. He is a leading expert in banking and finance and recently did most excellent work of this kind in Guatemala. He has expressed a willingness to go to Honduras and to leave the United States early in June. Department would be glad to be informed as to whether Prof. Kemmerer is acceptable to Government of Honduras and desires to learn what compensation the Government of Honduras would be willing to pay him.

Colby
  1. Neither printed.